This is the only shot I’ve ever taken with the combination of Canon 5D mkII and the Voigtlander f/1.1 lens at full aperture. Since the lens is not compatible with a full frame sensor, I had to hold it by hand away from the camera to get the contacts of the nearby 50mm lens to

This photo reminds me of that scene in Beetlejuice where they dig up the cemetery’s fake grass with a shovel. One afternoon I spent hours trying to find a good candidate for a tilt-shift tutorial I was writing and oddly enough, this shot of a dinghy near Island Park in Sarasota, FL really worked out. A little

This is a “fake tilt-shift” effect I achieved with an earlier version of Photoshop – right now Photoshop CS6 has a much easier way to do this (with much finer control). This was taken on a hike to overlook Edinbugh some years ago.

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